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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SONG. Oh, say not, my love, with that mortified air, That your spring-time of pleasure is flown, Nor bid me to maids that are younger repair, For those ra... more »ptures that still are thine own. Though April his temples may wreathe with the vine, Its tendrils in infancy curl'd, 'Tis the ardour of August matures us the wine Whose life-blood enlivens the world. Though thy form, that was fashion'd as light as a fay's, Has assumed a proportion more round, And thy glance, that was bright as a falcon's at gaze, Looks soberly now on the ground,— Enough, after absence to meet me again, Thy steps still with ecstasy move ; Enough, that those dear sober glances retain For me the kind language of love ! VISION OF DON RODERICK. JOHN WHITMORE, Esq. TO THE COMMITTEE OF SUBSCRIBERS FOB RELIEF OF THE PORTUGUESE SUFFERERS, IK WHICH HE PRESIDES, THIS POEM, (the Vision Of Don Roderick,) COMPOSED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FUND UNDER THEIR MANAGEMENT, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY WALTER SCOTT. chapter{Section 4PREFACE THE VISION OF DON RODERICK. The following Poem is founded upon a Spanish Tradition, particularly detailed in the Notes; but bearing, in general, that Don Roderick, the last Gothic King of Spain, when the Invasion of the Moors was impending, had the temerity to descend into an ancient vault, near Toledo, the opening of which had been denounced as fatal to the Spanish monarchy. The legend adds, that his rash curiosity was mortified by an emblematical representation of those Saracens, who, in the year 714, defeated him in battle, and reduced Spain under their dominion. I have presumed to prolong theVision of the Revolutions of Spain down to the present eventful crisis of the Peninsula; and to divide it, by a supposed change of scene, in...« less